a look at the social security program and the fiscal cliff negotiations. tea party leaders hold a news conference to voice their opposition to higher taxs. later the house debate on the fiscal cliff. >> the senate's small business committee holds a hearing on hurricane sandy that looks at federal assistance for small businesses affected by the storm. we'll hear from small business officials and fearbles from new york and new jersey. live coverage gets wurnedyay at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. >> i away to explain somehow told tearian happens. we've seen the archives that described the relationships. we know the main events from our point of view. we read them, we've written them. what i wanted to show from a different angle, from the ground up. what did it feel like to be one of the people who were subjected to this system? how did people make choices in that system and how did they react and how did they behave? it is interesting, one of things that happened since 1989 is the region we used call eastern europe. these countries don't have things in common with one